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November 10, 2022
Thanksgiving Harvest
Special Edition #3

Welcome from Fr Peter Okafor:

In preparation for and support of Thanksgiving Harvest 2022:
This Sunday, November 13!
DANCE! DANCE ! DANCE!
Come to the Line Dance fundraiser, after our Sunday Mass. This is part of the Filipino Thanksgiving Offering which begins at the Mass, and culminates in the dance & dine party in the church hall. Get your tickets at the door- $20 a person. (Youth and children under 17 are free.) Your donation will provide for you not only lessons in line dancing but also delicious authentic Filipino food.

Lillian Carlson, coordinator of the Filipino Harvest, is inviting all to join in the fun!
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Letter from our Pastor:

Dear St. Antoninus family & friends: 

“What ever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters” (Colossians 3:23)
 
I am delighted to announce that our 2022 Thanksgiving Harvest celebration will be on Sunday, December 11. Our preparations began late this year due to a very busy and blessed summer. But it is not too late, as long we do this for the Lord.
 
This joyful celebration is our primary fundraiser each year for the vital infrastructure repairs and minor improvements needed for our beautiful but aging buildings ( See below for list of work already completed and projects still in progress). 
 
This is a golden opportunity, an “excuse,” to invite family and friends to join you on one of the Sundays prior to December 11th in your personal “thanksgiving offering unto the Lord” for all the graces and blessings received this past year. “Give thanks in all circumstances. For this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thes 5:18).
 
The recent years have been a very challenging time for all of us, not only here in this country, but all over the world. On top of that, there has been a substantial decrease in the practice of the faith, and a significant increase in the entanglements of evil, including in our own families.

May this give you an even greater reason to have a selfless courage and love in inviting family and friends to join you on one of the Sundays prior to December 11th for your thanksgiving offering at Mass. Reserve a Sunday for your thanksgiving offering and invite family, friends and business associates to give thanks to the Lord with you – that many others may share in the blessings of making a thanksgiving offering unto the Lord.
 
Thank you for your generous support for our Thanksgiving Harvest in the past, and thank you ahead of time for your continued sacrificial support with your time, talent and treasure this year. May the Lord outdo you in generosity, as He always does! Please consider being a Major Sponsor or Benefactor, but most of all, simply give with a grateful heart according to how the Lord has blessed you.  
 
With great joy, expectant faith & thanksgiving in our hearts, we do our part in bringing in the fruitful harvest that He has promised.
 
Remember that the greatest fundraising we can do is going to be through sharing the faith with someone. You can do this by simply inviting them to join you here at Sunday Mass. Our faith is too good to keep it to ourselves.
In Jesus thru Mary & St Joseph,

Fr Joseph

With love & thanksgiving,
from our families....

Please participate in the beautiful tradition of the Sunday Family Harvest Offering in preparation for our Thanksgiving Harvest. This is an occasion for an individual, family or group to make a special thanksgiving offering on any of the Sundays leading up to the Thanksgiving Harvest day (Dec 11).

It is a time to give thanks to God for the blessings received, especially over the past year- and it would mean that you would invite extended family & friends to join you on that day in processing to the altar to present your offering during the Offertory of the Mass.
We have 4 Sundays remaining for our Family Harvest Thanksgiving Offering. Choose your day! We can accommodate up to 4 sets of families or individual or groups on each of the 4 Sundays.

Nov 13 - Filipino Harvest & Young Adults of St Antoninus
Nov 20 -
Nov 27 -
Dec 4- The Religious Education Classes (Students &Teachers)

Please call the office 973-623-0258 or see Cassilda after Mass if you would like to schedule your Family Harvest. Or email us directly right here.
The best possible fundraiser is always going to be evangelization. It is by God‘s providential design that this is so. Everything goes back to and rests upon evangelization . While it is certainly true that we are always sustained by grace, it is also true that we will be judged by whether or not we were faithful to and good stewards of that grace. In that sense, our very existence as a parish is dependent on our obedience to the Lord’s commandment to "Go make disciples."
Most of the time all we have to do is simply extend the invitation: "Come and see.Come with me to church.'
The Lord will do the rest....
  • - Fr. Joseph
Essential work that we have been able to do or are in the process of doing with the funds raised from the last 3 Thanksgiving Harvests:
 
PROJECTS COMPLETED
1. Electrical & HVAC engineer and structural engineer consultations and reports, – $13,425
2. Steel catwalk in boiler room for access to new location of upgraded church electric supply – $18,000
3. Essential upgrade of our electric supply in church from our present 200 amp service to a 800 amp service) into the church needed for HVAC work. (waiting for PSE&G to turn on power). This work was done in 3 stages with total cost of $60,000.
4.  Replaced leaking roof in convent (emergency) - $14,000
5.  Repaired parapet wall of convent - $2,500
6.  Replaced rotten structural section of edge of the church roof (rectory side) and gutter (emergency) - $10,000.
For other church roof expenses see below.
 
(Total Spent thus far - $117,925)
 
PROJECTS IN PROGRESS (or bids still coming in):
 
1. HVAC split system package of four (exterior) condensers and 8 (interior) heads– $74,237 (This will be done in 4 stages, at a cost of $18,559.25 at each stage).
-Stages I & II (2 exterior condensers and 4 interior heads) – $37,118.50
2. Fencing to protect (exterior) condensers from vandalism & theft (approximate cost - $10,000)
3. Replace entire membrane on two sections of church roof and patch about 20 small holes in flat roof membrane – (approximate cost $10,000)
 
Total Additional expenses in 2022 (approximately) - $57,118.50.
 
Total (projected) Harvest Funds spent on major projects in the past 2 years (by the end of 2022) - $175,043.50
 
HVAC - Stages III & IV to be completed in 2023 with funds from the 2022 Thanksgiving Harvest – Please God. -$37,118.50
 
Photos from our previous Thanksgiving Harvest celebrations- click below to view.
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973-623-0258
337 South Orange Ave, Newark NJ 07103 
Rev. Joseph A. Meagher (Pastor)